US 2017/0281384 A1Published application

Functional shoulder support brace with cabling system

OwnerSilas Efraim Bezerra de Araujo Pimentel, Austen David Archibald +1inventors

InventorsSilas Efraim Bezerra de Araujo Pimentel, Austen David Archibald, Bryce David Mortensen

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a shoulder brace for the rehabilitation of patients that suffer from shoulder instability. The shoulder brace uses a novel elevation and compression cabling system to stabilize and approximate the humerus to glenoid fossa. More specifically, the present invention allows an individual that suffers from shoulder instability to easily put on and, while wearing the device, adjust all forces that approximate their shoulder without the assistance of another individual. The design will also allow the individual the ability to have functional movement. This will give someone who has become dependent on others to regain a greater degree of independence.

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A shoulder brace, comprising:

a sleeve having a portion adapted for wearing over a user's glenohumeral joint and at least a portion of the user's humerus, and having another portion adapted for wearing over the user's upper arm below the user's glenohumeral joint;
a shoulder-tightening mechanism on said sleeve;
a first series of anchor points located on said sleeve;
an elevation cable passing through said first series of anchor points and bound by said shoulder-tightening mechanism such that said elevation cable is constricted by said shoulder-tightening mechanism;
an arm-tightening mechanism on said sleeve;
a second series of anchor points located on said sleeve;
a compression cable passing through said second series of anchor points and bound by said arm tightening mechanism such that said compression cable is constricted by said arm tightening mechanism to compress said sleeve.

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A shoulder brace, comprising:

a first sleeve adapted for wearing over a user's glenohumeral joint and at least a portion of the user's humerus;
a second sleeve adapted for wearing over the user's arm at a location below the user's shoulder;
an intermediate connecting sleeve portion interconnecting said first sleeve portion and said second sleeve portion;
a shoulder-tightening mechanism on said first sleeve;
a first series of anchor points wherein a portion of said anchor points is located on said first sleeve and a portion of said anchor points is located on said second sleeve;
an elevation cable passing through said first series of anchor points and bound by said shoulder-tightening mechanism such that said elevation cable is constricted by said shoulder-tightening mechanism;
an arm-tightening mechanism on said second sleeve;
a second series of anchor points located on said second sleeve;
a compression cable passing through said second series of anchor points and bound by said arm tightening mechanism such that said compression cable is constricted by said arm tightening mechanism to compress said sleeve.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/478,131Filed 3 Apr 2017
Priority: 1 Apr 2016
Published: 5 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A61F 5/0102
Orthopaedic devices, e.g. long-term immobilising or pressure directing devices for treating broken or deformed bones such as splints, casts or…
A61F 5/05
Devices for stretching or reducing fractured limbs; Devices for distractions; Splints: for immobilising
A61F 13/146
Specially adapted for the breast or abdomen: shoulder bandages or bandaging garments
A61F
Filters implantable into blood vessels

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Application62/317,075Us provisional application · filed 1 Apr 2016
US 10,646,366 B2Related patent
US 2017/0281384 A1This patent

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